Category: Spirits

At the opening event to the LA Food and Wine Festival last night, a new whiskey project was launched. The Glenlivet unveiled their new immersive whiskey experience, the Dram Room, which seeks to educate consumers about Scotch. The choice to...

Recently, I decided to try a couple of Trader Joe’s alcohol offerings. So, I got myself a beer and a whiskey. The beer was Trader Joe’s Providential Belgian-Style Golden Ale and the whiskey was Trader Joe’s Highland Single Malt Scotch...

In stark contrast to the handful of single malt whiskies from Islay I discussed last week comes this week’s whiskey. Having gone on a cruise recently, there were three Johnnie Walker blended Scotch whiskies that seemed interesting to me, largely...

On Sunday, I had the opportunity to take part in a Scotch-tasting* in which all of the whiskies were from Islay. Having had some Islay Scotches here and there, I had not really familiarized myself with whiskies from that island,...

A few days ago in Long Beach, an interesting and, perhaps, unusual combined tasting took place at the World Tea Expo. Entitled “The Leaf and the Grain”, Kevin Gascoyne of Camellia Sinensis led attendees in a tasting of teas and...

This past Sunday, I got to experience a rye whiskey-tasting for my first time.* While I have had a rye whiskey or a rye whiskey there, I was not particularly familiar with rye whiskey beyond having a sense that it...

Upon departing for my recent trip to Israel out of the Tom Bradley International Terminal, while making our way into the gates area at LAX, I noticed a duty free shop that offered free spirits to taste. Not one to...

This past Sunday, I held an Irish Whiskey-tasting – my first-ever. Along with 15+ other people, we were able to sample 7 different Irish whiskies. While I have had Jameson and Bushmills, I really did not have much of a...

As someone who enjoys whiskey, but is not too particularly knowledgeable about different Scotch whiskies, I was glad to try a couple of well-known Scotches last week. While meeting up with some others, we decided to try some Glenfiddich 12...

One of the nicer whiskies I’ve come across is The Macallan Highland single malt Scotch whisky. Recently, I tasted a couple of them; namely, the ten years old and the fifteen years old (I also had the twelve-year old version...